Write the Name of Jesus

Hi, I’m Joni Eareckson Tada. Eight years after my first cancer diagnosis, as you know, I’ve been diagnosed a second time. Another round of treatment could have really brought me down, but this quotation has really bolstered my spirits: it’s from Charles Spurgeon and he wrote, “I know of nothing in which I could hold Pontius Pilate as an example to you, save in this one thing; he placed the Name of Jesus on the cross… Pilate, the vacillating governor, for once stuck to the truth, and would not be driven from it. Now… whenever you have a cross, write the Name of Jesus the King above it and stand on what you’ve written.” And friend, that’s exactly what I did. And because I constantly attached the name of Jesus to my trial – this cancer – this cross doesn’t feel heavy or burdensome.

So friend, whatever cross you are bearing today, write the name of Jesus on it! And stand on what you’ve written.